Further progress… now I have the RTL-SDR (temporarily connected to a vertical VHF antenna) and Raspberry Pi 3 running the SatNOGS package. It has been able to copy signals from several satellites and upload to the SatNOGS database, and I can see the results in my account. Today, I configured the RPi to do rotor control and the completed rotor came to life on schedule and tracked OSCAR-7 ! Looks like it followed the right track, as the realtime rotor angles appeared to match the AZ-EL computed on PC using SatPC32. What’s remaining: I am waiting to receive a tripod I plan to mount the rotor on, and an antenna. This will be a phase 1 antenna based on the Arrow; later, will upgrade with the homebrew helical.
1 Like